Nick Harkaway Quotes
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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I just like to build things and do things.
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If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
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People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.
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I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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The personal is political, but only to a point.
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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
